Module: Thin Plate Spline (Local)
(c) 2006 by O.Conrad
Menu: Grid > Gridding > Spline Interpolation
Description
Creates a 'Thin Plate Spline' function for each grid point based on all of the scattered data points that are within a given distance. The number of points can be limited to a maximum number of closest points.

References:
- Donato G., Belongie S. (2002): 'Approximation Methods for Thin Plate Spline Mappings and Principal Warps', In Heyden, A., Sparr, G., Nielsen, M., Johansen, P. (Eds.): 'Computer Vision – ECCV 2002: 7th European Conference on Computer Vision, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 28–31, 2002', Proceedings, Part III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag Heidelberg; pp.21-31.

- Elonen, J. (2005): 'Thin Plate Spline editor - an example program in C++', http://elonen.iki.fi/code/tpsdemo/index.html.

Parameters
NameTypeIdentifierDescriptionConstraints
Input
Points Shapes (input)SHAPES
Output
Grid (*)Data Object (optional output)GRID
Options
AttributeTable fieldFIELD
Target GridChoiceTARGETAvailable Choices:
[0] user defined
[1] grid system
[2] grid
RegularisationFloating pointREGUL
Search RadiusFloating pointRADIUS
Points SelectionChoiceSELECTAvailable Choices:
[0] all points in search radius
[1] maximum number of points
Maximum Number of PointsIntegerMAXPOINTSMinimum: 1.000000
(*) optional